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Stop the Boilerplate Burnout: How to Keep Your Grant Story Fresh Without Losing Your Sanity

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

New leadership, shifting priorities, evolving language around DEIeverything changes constantly, and if youre not careful, your boilerplate starts to look like a relic from 2019. Keeping the organizational grant story updated can feel like trying to change a tire while the cars still moving.

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The most read Candid insights articles in 2024: Fundraising, AI, and diversity 

Candid

According to the authors of The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Age of AI, the human risks of over-reliance on AI tools for time and cost efficiency include exacerbating the burnout crisis and eroding internal collaboration and communication. nonprofit sector demographics by Kyoko Uchida, Candid.

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Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work

Candid

The warning signs included the ongoing toxic combination of low pay and overwhelming workloads endemic in nonprofit work that leads to exhaustion, mistakes, and ultimately burnout. In 2019, the World Health Organization defined workplace burnout not as an employee problem, but as an organizational culture and leadership problem.

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What to know about U.S. nonprofit sector demographics 

Candid

Based on data from 59,550 public charities that shared demographic data between July 2019 and January 2024, 47% of all staff identify as white, 24% as Black/African American, 19% as Hispanic/Latino, 6% as Asian American/Pacific Islander, 1% as Native American, and 4% as multiracial.

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Use This Email Template to Upgrade Donors from One-Time to Monthly

Network for Good

In 2019, only 19% of first-time donors gave a second time. You can’t sustain a nonprofit with that level of attrition — it will lead to burnout. Attracting new donors is an essential part of every fundraising strategy. But it’s not enough. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to convert one-time donors to monthly supporters.

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Why is leadership aspiration down among BIPOC nonprofit staff? 

Candid

Based on a 2022 survey of more than 3,000 nonprofit staff, The Push and Pull: Declining Interest in Nonprofit Leadership found that fewer respondents said they aspired to lead than in 2016 and 2019. These findings raise real concerns about the future of leadership in the sector.

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Cultivating Empathy in School-Parent Communications

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Stanford University psychologist Jamil Zaki, PhD , describes empathy as the “psychological ‘superglue’ that connects people and undergirds cooperation and kindness” (The Economist, June 7, 2019). As a former Head of School, I know that parents can be complicated and time consuming to manage, and that management can lead to burnout.